Heartworn Silence

Where dust lingers and silence speaks

This series looks Westward: to wide skies, weathered structures, and roads that stretch past the horizon. These are landscapes marked by silence: raw and enduring, shaped as much by what’s missing as by what remains.

Collection of small landscape watercolor paintings displayed on a wooden fence, depicting mountains, roads, fields, and skies.

Each painting balances fragility and endurance: dust that settles, light that shifts, color that clings to the edges of empty ground.

Stillness here is not hollow but weighted, its story carried in what’s left unsaid. Silence is not only ache; it carries tenderness too, the hush that softens, the trace of what endures.

Watercolor painting of a natural landscape featuring a tall pine tree, a grassy field, wooden fence posts, and a sunset sky.
A decorative white plate with intricate cutout patterns around the edges, containing faint watercolor landscape art with hills and a cloudy sky, placed on a wooden surface.

Heartworn Silence becomes a record of that balance: silence made visible, absence transformed into presence, endurance held in paint and sky.

The Series

What Remains What Remains
What Remains
Nothing but Time Nothing but Time
Nothing but Time
Weight of Light Weight of Light
Weight of Light
Distance Between Distance Between
Distance Between
Held by the Horizon Held by the Horizon
Held by the Horizon
Measured in Silence Measured in Silence
Measured in Silence
Road Without Answer Road Without Answer
Road Without Answer
Without a Word Without a Word
Without a Word
Gone Before the Dust Settled Gone Before the Dust Settled
Gone Before the Dust Settled
Ghosted Ground Ghosted Ground
Ghosted Ground
Almost Quiet Almost Quiet
Almost Quiet